Hunting and Zinn

In 1998, I read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States based on (Good) Will Hunting's assessment that it would "knock you on your ass." According to this article at the Daily Beast, it turns out that Matt Damon and Zinn are actually old friends, and that's how that line got in the movie. I don't know why, but I find that trippy. Also within that link, Aragorn's take on Sarah Palin - priceless.